His Linksys WAG 200G router responded to the virtual knock on the front door for port 32,764. The port was open and the router itself (not a computer on his LAN) was processing data sent to it.

It's not only the front of your router that uses lights for communicating its state to you. ... Ethernet ports usually have two LEDs, on the side where the clip on the cable plug goes.

You also find one USB port on the front and a second on the side, ... The D-Link DSR-250 is an eight-port Gigabit VPN router with a list price of $189.99, but can be found online for around $115.

Thus, the router sends and receives networking traffic from the modem with one connection and routes all that data through its four Ethernet ports and through the air via the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands.

Synology's wireless LAN router ' WRX560 ' supports Wi-Fi 6 and has convenient features such as 'four wired LAN ports', 'up to 150 devices can be connected simultaneously', and 'VPN service can be ...

All of its ports are lined up neatly vertically on the back side, with the front featuring corresponding LED indicators for each port. ... That leaves one more physical 10Gbps port on the router.